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3 hours ago, dcarch said:
I don't think Florida gets snow.
dcarch 🙂
It's all the white-haired seniors, I guess.
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11 minutes ago, weinoo said:
Maybe because that’s how they wanted it to read? Ranting about restaurants… at times. She has never been a restaurateur.That's plausible. I'd have hyphenated it in that case, but (shrug) I'll give 'em the benefit of the doubt.
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"Restauranter"?
I know she didn't write the publisher's blurb, but how does a publisher not proofread its own promo copy?
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10 hours ago, Tropicalsenior said:
In Costa Rica, hot dogs are sold with plastic skins that must be removed before cooking. I don't think there's a gringo here that hasn't thrown a hot dog on the barbie and wound up with melted plastic skin the first time. My friend Lenora couldn't figure out why would they would wrap them in plastic to sell them. I had to explain that they were made that way and that they were just too lazy to take off the skin before they sold them.
At least a few brands were sold that way in Canada too, though I don't recall when I saw one last. It was probably the 90s, because I remember making that kind for my kids.
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So we all knew we were overdue for another enoki mushrooms recall, right?
...right?
Right.
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9 hours ago, bokreta said:
I gotta admit, when I spent a year abroad on a Fullbright as a youngling, as much as I LOVED being where I was and the food that was widely available, I seriously missed M&Ms and Kraft Mac & Cheese.
I had a chance encounter with a traveling American business man and helped him navigate a sticky local situation. Once he got back to the States, he sent me a care package of those plus a few other treats. I almost cried when I opened the box and rationed the heck out of that box for the next many months. Certainly not tastier or better food, just what the heart wanted after another day of everything being new and different.
One of my sociology profs and his wife (an anthropology prof) spent a year in the Soviet Union back in the 70s, teaching for part of that time but mostly doing research on the treatment of indigenous peoples there (indigenous studies was their area of shared specialization).
He said that if he went back, he would fill an entire suitcase with peanut butter. Apparently it was unavailable there, and a leading example of "what the heart wanted" among the small community of Canadians and Americans living/working/studying in the USSR. -
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On 5/15/2024 at 5:50 PM, Tropicalsenior said:
Have you tried it?
@Smithy damn me if you like, but I always keep a big supply of these
I'm sure you can find something comparable up there if you can't find Tang. I use them to flavor my yogurt and make a yogurt drink. My favorites are Fresa (strawberry) and Maracuya (passion fruit).
They're great to have for a quick drink with dinner or for flavorings in desserts. A couple teaspoons of the maracuya make a super cornstarch pudding.
I honestly didn't know Tang was still sold. I haven't seen it in... I dunno, 40 years or so?
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Check your cupboards, snack lovers: Frito-Lay is recalling Harvest Cheddar flavored Sun Chips, and one of its Munchies mixes, for salmonella. This one is national.
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Yup. There's a massive overpopulation of deer across much of North America as well, and having more venison end up on tables would be a Very Good Thing by most measures.
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1 hour ago, Smithy said:
This bread roll looks innocuous, doesn't it?
Thing is, I rescued it from one of my husband's uneaten hospital meals.
In February.
I had planned to use it for bread crumbs, or to make croutons, or some such, but events got in my way. Then I got curious about its apparent longevity. It still looks pristine, some 10 weeks later. I think I'm going to leave it in its wrapper and see how long it takes for something to sprout. Maybe, like the infamous wrapped Twinkie in the office of some food writer (Michael Pollan??), it will last for years. Don't think I'm going to feed it to anyone I love!
I've had a pack of Wonder brand English muffins (this is why I seldom let other people shop for me...) go missing in my cupboard for 8 months, and still be mold-free and apparently edible when they were discovered. I found that extremely disconcerting, and did not put them to the test.
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The "Western Family" brand of chocolate-covered and yogurt-covered pretzels is being recalled for potential salmonella. Affects BC for sure, possibly/probably other provinces will be added to the recall.
https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/western-family-brand-yogurt-covered-pretzels-and-milk-chocolate-covered-pretzels?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23 -
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On 4/26/2024 at 6:36 AM, chromedome said:
This is BC only, but a bunch of Juwei brand food products have been recalled for potential listeria. I doubt many of us have a pack of "spicy duck esophagus" in our pantries, bit if so...
https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/juewei-brand-meat-and-vegetable-products-recalled-due-listeria-monocytogenes?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23So this one is broadening. They've added Kingwuu brand and T&T brand products to the recall, and of course T&T is Loblaw's so that puts the product into a lot more stores. It now affects BC and Alberta for sure, and the products may have made their way to other provinces.
https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/kingwuu-brand-and-tt-kitchen-brand-meat-and-vegetable-products-recalled-due-listeria?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23 -
This is BC only, but a bunch of Juwei brand food products have been recalled for potential listeria. I doubt many of us have a pack of "spicy duck esophagus" in our pantries, bit if so...
https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/juewei-brand-meat-and-vegetable-products-recalled-due-listeria-monocytogenes?utm_source=gc-notify&utm_medium=email&utm_content=en&utm_campaign=hc-sc-rsa-22-23-
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1 hour ago, gfweb said:
Indeed.
I can't see the use or wisdom of remote starting my oven. (was food left in there all day at room temp to start spoiling?)
I suspect that WiFi looks good to engineers and marketers who never actually use the product.
This. So much this.
As many of you will recall I'm a freelancer, and I write a lot on topics related to internet safety, scam avoidance, etc. One really large and growing issue is that so many of these "smart" Internet of Things (IoT) devices can't be meaningfully patched or upgraded once they're in the field, which means that any vulnerabilities in their aging chipsets can be exploited for the remainder of their operational life. Sometimes there's no direct harm (you wouldn't know if your fridge or combi-oven was dragooned into a botnet), but in other cases attackers can gain access to your home network and many of the attached devices. You know, the ones containing your banking information, etc (not to mention the ones with mics and cameras).-
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Just now, Shel_B said:
An interesting seder idea ...
I've seen Christmas dinners packed that way, on the "No Context Brits" Twitter feed. A perfect illustration of the aphorism that "just because you (ahem) can, doesn't mean you should."
On a completely unrelated note, my daughter just sent me this one:
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Some of you may be seeing these headlines already in your morning news, but the avian flu virus (H5N1) has been detected in grocery-store milk; or more accurately fragments of the virus' RNA have been detected in milk. There is further testing underway to see if a viable virus can be cultured from any of the test samples, but the expectation is that the answer will be "No" (this is what pasteurization is for, after all). RNA fragments would be present even if the virus itself was killed.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/health/bird-flu-milk-fda/index.htmlAfter the events of the past few years epidemiologists and virologists are well-represented in my Twitter feed, and the consensus at present could be described as "this is concerning, but not yet alarming." The real threat (touched on in this article, and amplified in several I've seen elsewhere) is that the virus mutates enough to spread to hogs, either directly from cattle or after jumping back into birds. Viruses that adapt to hogs can then make the jump to humans, and in the (so far rare) cases when H5N1 has made that jump it has not gone well for the human involved.
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Induction Cooktops
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Saw this today on Wired, and couldn't agree more. I've said repeatedly (including here, IIRC) that aside from its other virtues induction would be a great technology as we age and become forgetful in the kitchen, because of the safety features, reduced risk of serious burns, etc, BUT... For the love of all that's holy, put knobs on the #*#!! things!
https://www.wired.com/story/touch-controls-on-stoves-suck-knobs-are-way-better